Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24820115f1c84478…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:55:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2f1402e95d9e448566502240bb73b080 SHA-1: 60035a65943eb1a076004f6e2a9129bcf069472e SHA-256: 24820115f1c844780583edef86fbe45ae67cd3f64cc6827e2e6760e7834a9e6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The 'utm_term=emotions coloring pages pdf' in one URL indicates a deceptive pretext to attract users. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6odmliuq14mf3l2aijkggqbqho/30004416401.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studioingtassinari.eu/userfiles/files/gigugamelameti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/64016162338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangonebike.com/uploads/file/72729338242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd537ba96d---18737536650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074009ae4aad---rukokenebisubez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ancient-theater.gr/media/file/sumuzidetobajikoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/28210745694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korean-school.hu/hangul/userfiles/file/77809174049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pe37u82nn9h8f6ar57gv5uabb2/86310448676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/028be4b83a3b0908e7619dcddbe8f703/sujiwifagatugufawivek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa7bc91a63c8ba5901308aaa0c6983e3/94052090233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnkingdee.cn/Files/file/202162172921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stagelight.pl/userfiles/files/rorodevivorutobipuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatuchlina.cz/upload/file/51696852937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vstarmp.cn/upload/files/20210622_215711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvolodin.ru/upload/file/patalakotutakefefidode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seikai.jp/free_images/files/7327598197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42e27745f5---savevodikuvomilemimaviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oij403kfkipqtotbpaq3lhr0e4/86534393427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60e74940f9f869a464fbcd93b5d72fee/gogirizejubavepisivijagag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/704479b62f36110f08139a5db8f68ece/zodipor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jcvcns1lp8sjl5sndvds4dpesp/39198360118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0b1b7dad9ae96027cc29b07900fb3ac/sujonetuzijaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocphuocjsc.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/28846156990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=emotions+coloring+pages+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d9b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9B9 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 4d5a8678adf8c9a6c83968a818552790b2e366abe5d6031fdc5b0cb26122aee2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010aee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AEE 16664 bytes
SHA-256: b2afdcf456439651145f7dda206ee0b1abf9d8b8d79a2da6ac737c67b8b498f4